somewhere between the buzz of my first decent headphones and stereo.... and the huge space i can fall into when i close my eyes now!  nice

Submission for the Collective Circumambient Experience
Adobe Education Leader collaborative project for 2022

Sonic interpretation of social isolation over last two years.

IsoJourney

If you haven't heard of Nikki Nair at this point, we'd invite you to come out from under that rock you're living in. But jokes aside, the last 12 months have been the Atlanta producer's year. He's toured seemingly endlessly, has found his way into a number of local scenes and has put out records for labels like Dirtybird, Lobster Theremin and Scuffed Recordings. If that weren't enough, he's also been putting out an illuminating series of monthly singles on his Bandcamp that show off both his restless muse and his seeming ability to both perfect and put his own stamp on any sub-genre or style he tries.

People usually use some form of the word "bass" to describe Nikki Nair, because of the way his music flits between dubstep, drum & bass, electro and more. One moment he's making staggering hip-hop instrumentals that would have fit right into the old LA beat scene, the next minute he's making pneumatic techno or uptempo stuff that would fit right in one Juke Bounce Werk. 

His voracious appetite for new sounds comes across on his RA Podcast, which is a sprawling two-hours-plus of genre hopping and careful mixing, hopping from mood to mood like a 2-D video game platformer. It starts off perhaps a little slower than you'd expect, but weaves through countless Nikki Nair tracks, older selections from Wolfgang Voigt and Drexciya and mind-melting club tracks from newer producers including DJ ADHD, Despina, Limewax and more. If you want to know what the hippest, most inventive dance music sounds like, bridging continents and oceans, this mix is it.

@nikki-nair

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/848

RA podcast

RA.848 Nikki Nair - 2022.09.05

Recording of Call Super's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

"Thank you for letting me do this, and much love to those who joined me. This set is dedicated to the memory of Steve Bronski."

Call Super at Dekmantel Festival 2022

Donato Dozzy at The Labyrinth 2014.

Venue: Naeba Greenland, Gunma, Japan.

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To celebrate 20 years of building Labyrinths, we have decided to release one set from each of the last ten years. I've chosen ten timeless moments that both document the history of the event and provide a historical snapshot of underground electronic music over the past ten years.

We have chosen a broad range--from closing techno sets, to morning ambient sets, to experimental sets to close the night. Each set represents a different side of the event. Taken together, they present a portrait of a decade of music.

The Labyrinthの20周年を記念して、過去10年間を振り返り、それぞれの年からひとつのミックスをピックアップすることにしました。イベントの歴史を記録すると同時に、過去10年間のアンダーグラウンドエレクトロニックミュージックの歴史的なスナップショットを提供します。今聞いても色褪せない、タイムレスな極上のミックスをお楽しみください。

テクノのクロージングセットから、朝のアンビエントセット、そして夜を締めくくるエクスペリメンタルセットまで幅広いセレクトですが、どのセットもThe Labyrinthの欠かせない側面を表しており、ここ10年におけるエレクトロニック ミュージックの全容とも言えるでしょう。

The Labyrinth 2014 - Donato Dozzy (closing set)

For her Fact mix k means holds us at a constant simmer, slick with sweat and dense with smog, burbling between unease and release, murk and steam.

https://www.factmag.com/2022/10/17/fact-mix-879-k-means/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 879: k means (Oct '22)

A variation of the 17th Century Christmas Carol pushed into a 4-4 time signature, rather than the original 3-4, for the sake of EDMness.

Happy Christmas everyone.

Purchase/Stream at Amazon:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/music/player/albums/B0BQN4ZXLS

Stream on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4PB2aflfYNssml3yFEUOU1

The First Noel - Variation (EDM 134bpm)

Releasing on TS Records soon.

This is just a preview of the piano drop.

Society - Jomarkho (Trance 138bpm) - Preview

Recorded, mixed & mastered 02-03 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes

First day - 
- Typed one paragraph from the Black Panther newspaper of 4 Nov 1972 into Google Translate. I went with 51 years ago, instead of 50.
- Sent the German output into a text-to-speech engine, PlayHT
- Paulstretch in Audacity & exported
- Dragged into Live and duplicated two more times
- Set warp markers to produce variations & panned two tracks L & R
- L & R tracks each treated to two instances of Arturia Tape Melo-Fi to get some crud distortion
- Center track treated to some widening in Live

Second day - 
- Recorded a china cymbal. This was run into Ableton Live’s Spectral Resonator and other effects.
- Recorded a short series of walking bass notes using a Turser JTB-402. This was run through a modified Buffer Shuffler, iZotope’s Neutron and other effects.
- I duplicated this track and converted the second copy to MIDI for use in sidechaining.
- I froze/flattened the cymbal, speech and bass audio tracks
- I altered some of the things I did the day before with the speech tracks.
- Recorded a nylon-string guitar that was missing the low E and the D string. I retuned the second highest string, recorded something related to the bass track and enhanced this with Live’s grain delay.
- I split the bass audio track into two for hi/lo processing with some simple shelving EQ.

Artwork generated via Adobe Express Generative AI.

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Black Panther, Vol. 9, No. 3, November 4, 1972

A Matter Of Life Or Death, vote “no” on proposition 17, 4th paragraph, translated into German.

Historically, America has justified its use of the death penalty, both domestically and on a world-wide level with the so-called “deterrent” theory. This twisted logic has resulted in the slaughter of millions throughout the world and the development of more and more ingenious methods of killing human beings.

Historisch gesehen hat Amerika seine Anwendung der Todesstrafe sowohl im Inland als auch auf weltweiter Ebene mit der sogenannten „Abschreckungs“-Theorie gerechtfertigt. Diese verdrehte Logik hat zur Abschlachtung von Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt und zur Entwicklung immer raffinierterer Methoden zur Tötung von Menschen geführt.

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This original version of "Begrabe Das Lied" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0618: Burying the Lede. The Assignment: Turn old news into new music.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: [disquiet.com/junto/](https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdisquiet.com%2Fjunto%2F&token=d5acd4-1-1699034765763)

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Project discussion takes place on [llllllll.co](http://llllllll.co/): https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0618-burying-the-lede/

This track was originally released under the artist name "Two-Finger Modal Box."

Begrabe Das Lied (disquiet0618)

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